Embrace Therapy

Embrace Therapy

By Vicky Linnane - Art TherapistHealth & FitnessMental Health
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Embrace Therapy episodes

  • Rowena Keaveny
    Rowena Keaveny is a Registered Level 2 Professional Member Therapist with the Association for Counselling and Therapy Online ACTO Rowena is also a professionally qualified art therapist based in Offaly, Ireland. She hold a First Class Honours MA in Art Therapy from Crawford College of Art & Design. She uses mixed media in heart therapy room and online. She is also the coeditor of IACAT's online journal Polyphony.We chat about the various tools, applications and devices she incorporates into her practice.


    Rowena mentions Dr. Natalie Carlton in our chat as well as Gretchen M. Miller Plus here are two book recommended by Rowena, to go alongside this podcast episode Digital Art Therapy and The Handbook of Art Therapy and Digital Technology

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    54 min
  • Sarah West
    Sarah West, MPA, BA(Hons), DKATI - Sarah is a graduate from The Kutenai Art Therapy Institute. Environmental Arts Therapy is Sarah's specialization - a modality akin to earth therapy and nature therapy. She is a professional member of the Canadian Art Therapy Association as well as a climate-aware therapist with the Climate Psychology Alliance. Environmental arts therapy is an intentionally structured and accompanied process that uses creative methods in relationship with the earth to support our wellbeing.  It can involve many different ways of creating, such as movement, writing, and making art.  This can be done spontaneously, or we’ll offer suggestions for what could be created. In this process, we connect with our full selves - body, mind, spirit. We set our intentions, we form a question we’d like an answer to. We walk, we move, we watch for the land “speaking back.” We go towards what we’re drawn to. We create with what’s on hand, however feels comfortable. We notice what plants or animals or natural synchronicities might arise. We see what emerges and what it might say to us. We feel the effect of working with traditional, recycled or natural art materials, and in that way, come into a greater sense of knowing the land that surrounds us.  This creative process can result in what is called earth art or eco artwork. In practice, nature therapy, forest therapy, earth therapy, and ecological art therapy are all closely related. You can find out more about Sarah on her website https://www.earthenvision.com

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    56 min
  • Suzie Cahn

    On the podcast this week is Suzie Cahn

    She is an Art Therapist with a focus on nature and ecology. Suzie was chair of IACAT in 2008.

    Suzie is the Social Enterprise Officer and Community Educator in the Higher Education team at An Cosán.

    She has a deep commitment to community led social change and climate justice through the creation of local livelihoods. Suzie co-founded a social enterprise called Carraig Dulra and has served as informal advisor and formal member for a diverse range of social enterprises and charities. ShuttleKnit Traveller GIY Waterford, VOICE Ireland CREATE (formerly CAFÉ) and WWOOF Ireland. Suzie Cahn runs a Garden and Permaculture Design business and is also a Director of Carraig Dulra teaching farm.




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    43 min
  • Liz Gleeson Shapes of Grief

    Wicklow native, Liz Gleeson joins me on the podcast this week. She is a Dramatherapist (Masters qualified) since 2004 and is a full professional member of IACAT. She also has qualifications in MSc Bereavement Studies and MA in Counselling & Psychotherapy, Liz’s approach is well grounded in theory & practice.

    In 2019, Liz set-up the podcast ‘Shapes Of Grief’ and has 80 wonderful episodes to date. Here are just some of the topics discussed: Children’s grief, lgbtq+ grief, widowhood, cancer and "Dying Well".

    Liz is a trailblazer in the field of Grief and Loss Education. She is currently a PhD student in the field of Grief Education. She offers workshops and trainings for a variety of organisations and is a Module Coordinator for the MSc Bereavement Studies at the Irish Hospice Foundation & RCSI.

    In 2015, Liz qualified as an Open Floor Movement Therapist, an approach that she uses to inform her clinical practice and she has a particular interest in a somatic approach to supporting the grieving process. Liz has completed Core Skills training in Mindful Self Compassion with Dr. Chris Germer.

    She offers one-to-one therapeutic support for those going through grief of any kind from her private practice in Greystones (and online) and also facilitates a number of Bereavement Groups. Liz is one of a few therapists providing Complicated Grief Therapy in Europe and offers this via skype to people in Ireland and abroad. Liz is curator of the Shapes Of Grief Global Grief Education Programme and speaks at conferences and summits internationally about all aspects of Grief.


    Podcast notes:

    Contact Liz Gleeson directly via email: [email protected]

    The Pyramid Liz mentions shorturl.at/dkuK0

    http://luisne.ie/bereavement-support/

    Liz mentioned a Japanese symbol for ikigai https://images.app.goo.gl/msdYqFXFpStVpbeT8

    George Bonanno: Measuring human resilience - YouTube https://youtu.be/5cJfi6NcPAw

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47716739_The_Dual_Process_Model_of_Coping_with_Bereavement_A_Decade_on 


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    58 min
  • Jennifer Ryan
    Psychologist Jennifer Ryan. Contact details [email protected] obtained her BSc in Psychology in 2003 and graduated from the University of Leicester with a MSc in Applied Forensic Psychology in 2006, with a special interest research in the role of gender and moral development on aggression in adolescence. She also has a Higher Diploma in Educational Guidance and Counselling from DCU and has completed her training in Conflict Resolution with Northside Mediation. She is a part-time lecturer in Psychology in Trinity College Dublin and lectures in UCD on the Graduate Diploma in Child Mental Health. She is currently studying MSc Systemic Psychotherapy in the Clanwilliam Institute Dublin She is a busy bee and this was such a treat to get to catch up. 

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    37 min
  • Amelia Hutchison
    On the podcast this week is Art Therapist, Amelia Hutchison. A graduate of Kutenai Art Therapy Institute and a member of the Canadian Art Therapy Association. She works with adults, supporting them through Post Traumatic Growth, Grief, Human Trafficking and Life Transitions. Amelia sees couples and individuals online via zoom.


    She is also a podcaster, her podcast show is Art Therapy I.R.L. It explores why creativity is a crucial tool for mental health in the wake of collective grief and trauma, and how art therapists can address issues of social justice. You should go and check it out, the link is just below :


    https://open.spotify.com/show/2swKStAO0p2zVmQwi26pU5?si=9595714e696b47ba



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    1 hr 8 min
  • Bill Ahessy
    Bill Ahessy is a senior music therapist working with older adults/dementia care and with children & adolescents with additional needs. He sat on the executive council of the Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists for two years. He also runs a supervision practice for music therapists. Is a lecturer, clinical placement supervisor and researcher. 
    Bill has been involved in researching since he graduated. He worked for one year as a lead clinical researcher on a randomised control trial, funded by the Meath Foundation, which was presented at the European Congress of Music Therapy and published in the Journal of Music and Medicine. He was also awarded a research grant by the Irish Hospice Foundation exploring music therapy in palliative care. His publications include peer-reviewed articles in International and Irish Journals and contributioms to three books on music therapy, the lastest a chapter on LGBTQIA+ ageing for the the Oxford Handbook of Queer and Trans Music Therapy.


    Here are links to some recent publications of Bill's :


    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352939691_Reminiscence-Focused_Music_Therapy_to_Promote_Positive_Mood_and_Engagement_and_Shared_Interaction_for_People_Living_With_Dementia


    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353347162_Music_Therapy_What_Psychologists_Need_to_Know


    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02646196211029342


    http://polyphony.iacat.me/features/creative-arts-therapists-in-ireland-2020-practice-professional-engagement-and-employment-key-findings


    An article mentioned in the podcast by Bill :

    http://polyphony.iacat.me/words/employment-after-graduation-from-the-ma-music-therapy-a-survey-of-graduates-from-the-university-of-limerick



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    51 min
  • Art Therapy with Joanne
    Joanne O' Dwyer is an art psychotherapist living and working in the midlands. Joanne moves around to different schools and services providing both individual and group art therapy to people of all ages and abilities. Joanne works both in the community and in private practice. Please visit her website for more information. https://www.arttherapywithjoanne.ieYou can find out more about where she works from her https://www.thedancingsoul.ie/practitioner/joanne-odwyer/

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    40 min
  • Sineád Keating
    Diagnosed with bipolar more than 12 years ago at the age of 21, Sineád discusses the importance of language when discussing mental health. Sineád also shares some reflections on her experiences with stigma in Irish health care settings.


    We learn more about how life is for her now, a year on since our first interview in September 2020. How life differs as a Mum of 16 month old twins and living through the pandemic!

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    56 min
  • Katie O’Donoghue - Art Therapist
    Katie O’Donoghue , author and illustrator of The Little Squirrel Who Worried, received their BA in Fine Art & Design and a first class MA in Art Psychotherapy from Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork. Katie is a fully accredited Art psychotherapist, with experience working with children and adults in schools, charities and children’s mental health services . In 2017 She was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions scholarship and is currently in the final stages of a PhD in Heritage and Psychological Wellbeing, at University College London.When not writing, painting or practicing as a therapist, Katie enjoys exploring the outdoors with her husband, Gerald, followed by curling up on the couch with cats Buzz and Bobby, a good book in hand or baking up a storm in the kitchen.

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    31 min

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In this podcast you will hear from qualified therapists and mental health care professionals themselves, as they share stories, insight and research on how embracing therapy is positive for ones mental health.